How poverty=stricken chaps and their chapesses dress from jumble sales!

Kingston1an wrote:

^ There was a shop in the Fulham Palace Road that sold this sort of kit but it closed earlier in the year.

I cannot imagine why people want to appear as though they are going to spend the day in a 1950s' 'bus queue with a picnic.

Kingston1an wrote:

^ True, but I have never understood amateur dramatics or English civil war re-enactors either.

Maybe some people just like dressing up in costume?

Absolutely agree. There is a fast-track for eccentricity to many an English heart; sometimes this results in  originality; sometimes in the 50s' 'bus queue look.

fxh wrote:

This looks much more interesting than the "real" Olympics - and I bet they don't test for drugs - makes me think I could compete next time around

At least it is amateur. However, I still think that they all look a little moth-eaten.

NJS wrote:

Kingston1an wrote:

^ There was a shop in the Fulham Palace Road that sold this sort of kit but it closed earlier in the year.

I cannot imagine why people want to appear as though they are going to spend the day in a 1950s' 'bus queue with a picnic.

Nostalgia of more simple time?

Ah! I get it now. It's Mornington Crescent in the park!

Considering we're broke it's beyond me why we're lashing money away on Olympic games & Jubilees. Load of bloody rubbish. Give the money to the NHS instead.

Bishop of Briggs wrote:

Ivy Jim wrote:

Considering we're broke it's beyond me why we're lashing money away on Olympic games & Jubilees. Load of bloody rubbish. Give the money to the NHS instead.

Because the last Labour government and Ken Livingstone signed binding contracts with the International Olympic Committee.

The big Jubilee events, e.g. the Thames pageant, were funded by private donations.

All construction projects started by local and national Labour and Liberal politicians seem to result in massive overspends. Often the companies involved go bust and the projects are then sold off at a mere fraction of the cost to the public purse.

The Olympic athletes should be all amateurs and arrive at their own expense; be made to compete in the nude (no sponsors allowed), run around Silverstone a couple of times; throw javelins and do the long and high jump in the middle, and the winner of each event gets a crown of laurel and they all get a fig leaf for modesty at the end. Then they can all bugger off home at their own expense. Anyone interested in watching should be allowed to do so free of charge; no cameras allowed. Tony Blair and Alistair Campbell on one side and Garden Broom and Ken Livingstone on the other should provide the grand finale - a tug o' war across the Thames by Vauxhall Bridge. The losers get drowned by the currents and the winners are drowned by the crowd.

Even if the Jubilee events were funded publicly, there's nothing wrong in celebrating the only institution that keeps the increasingly unstuck sides of the box together.

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Bishop of Briggs wrote:

Ivy Jim wrote:

Considering we're broke it's beyond me why we're lashing money away on Olympic games & Jubilees. Load of bloody rubbish. Give the money to the NHS instead.

Because the last Labour government and Ken Livingstone signed binding contracts with the International Olympic Committee.

The big Jubilee events, e.g. the Thames pageant, were funded by private donations.

Boo ! Let them privately donate their money to something better !

My gripe isn't even political - Labour/Conservative, whoever it was - Saying fuck off is always an option. Why do we want the Olympics ?

... I'm always glad when we lose Eurovision so we don't have to host the bloody bollocks next time round !

There is indeed money still out there and it breaks my heart to see it pissed up the wall time and time again.

NJS wrote:

Bishop of Briggs wrote:

Ivy Jim wrote:

Considering we're broke it's beyond me why we're lashing money away on Olympic games & Jubilees. Load of bloody rubbish. Give the money to the NHS instead.

Because the last Labour government and Ken Livingstone signed binding contracts with the International Olympic Committee.

The big Jubilee events, e.g. the Thames pageant, were funded by private donations.

All construction projects started by local and national Labour and Liberal politicians seem to result in massive overspends. Often the companies involved go bust and the projects are then sold off at a mere fraction of the cost to the public purse.

The Olympic athletes should be all amateurs and arrive at their own expense; be made to compete in the nude (no sponsors allowed), run around Silverstone a couple of times; throw javelins and do the long and high jump in the middle, and the winner of each event gets a crown of laurel and they all get a fig leaf for modesty at the end. Then they can all bugger off home at their own expense. Anyone interested in watching should be allowed to do so free of charge; no cameras allowed. Tony Blair and Alistair Campbell on one side and Garden Broom and Ken Livingstone on the other should provide the grand finale - a tug o' war across the Thames by Vauxhall Bridge. The losers get drowned by the currents and the winners are drowned by the crowd.

Even if the Jubilee events were funded publicly, there's nothing wrong in celebrating the only institution that keeps the increasingly unstuck sides of the box together.

See? Now that's sense.

I'd only quibble about the monarchy, not that I wish them gone. They can stay at their own expense, but do more to earn their keep. Stand up comedy, Porn, I'm not bothered what. Opening this & that is hardly a job & nor is endlessly eating with people shipped in from France, Spain, America, Etc.

Next on my list comes the C. of E. which isn't the C. of E. It's the C. of itself and SO little to do with E. that it should be told to shut up.

Moving on - All public schools to be made public under the Trades Descriptions Act.

No more branches of Tesco, no matter how handy.

Frying should be licenced.  You should have to pay more for it.  The poor can have theirs grilled instead.

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And what's so wrong with murder ?

Show me the crime in getting rid of most people...

...something has to be done.....!!!!!!